Whoever said that should be fired. Even if he thought it, there are plenty of other excuses that don’t make CBS sound like the Old People Network it’s so desperately tried to stop being. Like “the entire point of Nancy Drew is that she’s a teenage detective, so why turn her into just another cop show protagonist” or “how about some stories about characters that are less than 85 years old”.

He works for the government now. Because if there’s one thing CBS knows how to do, it’s procedural cop show. Everything must become procedural cop show.

Danielm80

About 30 years ago, James W. Fry came up with a formula to create a TV show. You just fill in the blanks with any words that come to mind: “He’s a ____________. She’s a ___________. They’re detectives.”

Now that formula is starting to look really imaginative. Now we get “Nancy Drew/MacGyver/Tom Selleck is a cop.”

But then, Bryan Fuller took those formulas and gave us Pushing Daisies and Hannibal.

This new MacGyver doesn’t seem to have the flustered charm of the original; I don’t remember the character being quite so smug and bro-ish. And I wonder if they’ll keep the catchy original theme song, or if it’s going to be Inception-BRRRAAAMMs all the way.

I guess they’re respecting the tradition of MacGyver having bad haircuts?

Danielm80

They could at least have made MacGyver a woman with a bad haircut, so there’d be one interesting thing about the show. I hear Sarah Shahi is available for the next reboot of MacGyver.

RogerBW

Yeah, the first time we see his face it’s a smug grin. Not a good start.